Cook Off

Last year, we started a cook off with some of our friends for Memorial Day. Our first one was for Chili. Delicious and stinky! We had about 10 different ones to choose from. There was even a vegetarian chili, this one beat ours for the "most enjoyable on a chili day" prize (Yes, pun intended).

Last weekend was our cook off for 2009. This year, we decided to spare everyone the happy after effects of the beans and went for an iron chef style cook off. The ingredient...potatoes. WOW! We had a lot of different entries. This time about 15 different entries and no two were the same. I know, i thought we would have three funeral potato recipes but nope!

Did you know you could make Cookies out of potatoes??? They were great. They kind of remind me of Applesauce dearies. Yummy!! Here is the recipe in case anyone wants to try it.

SWEET POTATO COOKIES
Provided by Cindy Burnham and Carl Valez

1 cup mashed sweet potatoes
¼ cup milk
1 egg, slightly beaten
4 tblsp melted butter
1 ¼ cups sifted flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ cup sugar
½ tsp salt
1tsp cinnamon
½ cup raisins

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix sweet potatoes, milk and melted butter and beat well. Sift and stir in the remaining ingredients. Drop by spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet and bake 15 minutes.

The entry that won "best of show" was for sweet potato wantons. They were amazing. They had a sauce on them that was spicy so you got a bit of sweet and spicy together. AMAZING!

I guess you could say we are "foodies". Thank goodness we have so many great friends that love food too. Everyone had a great time and left about 5 pounds heavier. we will all be hitting the gym a little extra this week to work it off.

Happy Eating!!